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My first impression looking at the questions was that they were intended to take the knowledge they had gained during the course and apply it to what may have b
by deong 12y ago
My first impression looking at the questions was that they were intended to take the knowledge they had gained during the course and apply it to what may have been an unfamiliar circumstance.
Done correctly, that's a completely fair exam. I'm sort of inclined to think that if there's this much smoke, something's probably on fire though. I know my own students will complain about silly things, but if they all complain about something, invariably I end up agreeing with them.
- basseq 12y agoThat's an apt comparison: if no (or painfully few) students were able to give at least a reasonable answer, the problem lays in the teaching curriculum or methodology. (This may not be the course itself, it may be a broader question about hand-holding an academia or similar, but the question remains.) I remember a particular instance in Geometry in high school. Everyone did poorly, so the teacher allowed us to work together to answer the questions again. My group was stuck on a particular question, so I asked the teacher to clarify. She refused, saying we were taught it. I retorted that since everyone was struggling, clearly the problem was on the other side of the desk. (It went over about as well as you might expect.)